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[edit]DescriptionFormer Selsey Tramway - geograph.org.uk - 766080.jpg |
English: Former Selsey Tramway The farm track between the northern tip of Selsey Golf Club and Ferry Farm is one of the few remaining sections of the Selsey Tramway that opened in 1897 and closed in 1936. Built by Colonel Stephens it was considered the most ramshackle of his private railways having been designated a tramway in order to circumvent stringent railway building regulations. Consequently, the line has no signals and little in the way of embankments as can be seen here. Linking Chichester to Selsey, the line initially started well but the breaching of an embankment at Pagham Harbour in 1911 and the cost of raising and repairing set the company finances back to a position that they were never able to recover and in the post war world were hit hard by competition from buses. The company went bankrupt in 1933 and were looked over by the future builders of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway as a possible site for their miniature railway before baulking at the cost of bridging. Southern Railways then surveyed the line and decided the cost of upgrading a line that had only ever received the most rudimentary of maintenance was too much and the line closed for good in 1936. This section and ironically the part that skirts the border of Pagham Harbour are the only traceable parts left today. |
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Author | Simon Carey |
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | Simon Carey / Former Selsey Tramway / |
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Camera location | 50° 45′ 07″ N, 0° 47′ 19″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 50.752040; -0.788600 |
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Object location | 50° 45′ 12″ N, 0° 47′ 17″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 50.753290; -0.788100 |
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